Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

Last Updated: January 30, 2021

This Privacy Policy is a part of our Terms of Service. By using our site and online store you agree to be bound by and comply with the terms of this Privacy Policy and the Terms of Service.

SECTION 1 – AGE RESTRICTIONS ON ACCESS AND PURCHASES

You must be at least 21 years old to access this site. If you are under 21 years old you are not permitted to use this site for any reason. You must be of legal age required by the state or province you are in to purchase our products. It is your responsibility to know whether you are legally able to purchase our products.

SECTION 2 - WHAT INFORMATION DO WE GATHER AND WHAT DO WE DO WITH IT?

When you purchase something from our store, as part of the buying and selling process, we collect the personal information you give us such as your name, address and email address and order history.  We also use cookies, web beacons or other tools that collect information that make it easier to use our store and our site.

When you visit our site, some information is automatically collected. This may include information such as the Operating System (OS) running on your device, Internet Protocol (IP) address (which may be used to obtain your geolocation), access times, browser type, and language, and the website you visited before our site. We also collect information about how you use our site, including the elements you have interacted with, metadata and other details about these elements, change states and other user actions.

Email marketing: By providing us with your email address, you are giving us permission to send you emails about our store, new products, new brands under the GMB Farms portfolio and other updates. You have the opportunity to unsubscribe from these emails at any time by clicking the “Unsubscribe” button included at the bottom of each email.

How we use your information. In general, we use the information we collect primarily to provide, maintain, protect and improve our current site and products and to develop new products and brands. We use personal information collected through our site as described below and described elsewhere in this Policy to:

• Facilitate the creation of and securing of your Account on our network;
• Identify you as a user in our system;
• Improve our products, site, and how we operate our business;
• Understand and enhance your experience using our site and products;
• Provide and deliver the products and services you request;
• Respond to your comments or questions and for our Support team to provide service about GMB Farms and/or other brands within the GMB Farms portfolio of brands;
• Send you related information, including confirmations, invoices, technical notices, updates, security alerts and support and administrative messages;
• Communicate with you about promotions, upcoming events and news about products and services offered by GMB Farms, brands within the GMB Farms portfolio of brands and our selected partners, and for other marketing purposes of GMB Farms;
• Link or combine your information with other information we get from third parties to help understand your needs and provide you with better service; and
• Protect, investigate and deter against fraudulent, unauthorized or illegal activity.

SECTION 3 - CONSENT

How do you get my consent?

By providing us with personal information to complete a transaction,  placing an order, arranging for a delivery or returning a purchase you are consenting to our collecting and using your information (your credit card information is discussed in Section 4 below).  

How do I withdraw my consent? 

You may withdraw your consent for us to contact you by clicking the “Unsubscribe” button included at the bottom of each email or contacting us at customerservice@gmbfarms.com or by mail at:

Gmb Farms Corp.
18451 Beech Ave
Shafter, CA 93263
United States

SECTION 4 - DISCLOSURE

We do not share your personal information with third parties without your consent other than with the following:

• Third Party Service Providers. With third parties who work on our behalf, provided that such third parties provide at least the same level of privacy protection as required by this Privacy Policy;
• Lawful Requests. To comply with laws or to respond to lawful requests and legal process (provided that we will endeavor to notify you at the address you have given us if we have received a lawful request for your information);
• Protection of Rights and Property. To protect the rights and property of GMB Farms, our agents, customers and others including to enforce our agreements, policies and  terms included in this Privacy Policy or our Terms of Service;
• In an emergency, including to protect the personal safety of any person; and
• Corporate Restructuring. For the purposes of a business deal (or negotiation of a business deal) involving a sale or transfer of all or a part of our business or assets (business deals may include, for example, any merger, financing, acquisition, divestiture or dissolution transaction or proceeding). In the event of an insolvency, bankruptcy, or receivership, personal information may also be transferred as a business asset. If another company acquires our company, business or assets, that company will also acquire and possess the personal information collected by us and will assume the rights and obligations regarding your personal information as described in this Policy.

SECTION 5 – PAYMENT PROCESSING

 Our store is built on an e-commerce software platform called Shopify that allows us to sell our products and services to you.

Payment: If you provide us with your credit card information during the payment process, we send it to our PCI-DSS compliant payment gateway for processing using SSL encryption technology. Your credit card information is stored for recurring subscription orders as well as within my account for faster checkout experience.

All direct payment gateways comply with the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, which is a joint effort of brands like Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover.

PCI-DSS requirements help ensure the secure handling of credit card information by our store and our payment processors and service providers.

SECTION 6 - THIRD-PARTY SERVICES

Our Policy does not cover any third party services. To learn about those third parties' privacy practices, please read their privacy policies.

Links: When you click on links on our store, they may direct you away from our site. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of other sites and encourage you to read their privacy policies.

SECTION 7 - SECURITY

To protect your personal information, we take reasonable precautions and follow generally accepted industry practices to make sure it is not inappropriately lost, misused, accessed, disclosed, altered or destroyed. Your personal information is protected by your password – never share this password with anyone. GMB Farms will never contact you to ask you for your password.

If you provide us with your credit card information, the information is transmitted to our server using  secure socket layer technology (SSL) which employs the AES-256 encryption standard.

SECTION 8 - AGE OF CONSENT

By using this site, you represent that you are at least the age of majority in your state or province of residence, or that you are the age of majority in your state or province of residence and you consent to any of your minor dependents using this site.

SECTION 9 – U.S. LAW APPLIES

This site is intended for users located in the United States. By sending us your Personal Information from outside the U.S., you consent to the application of U.S. law and to the use and disclosure of your personal information consistent with this Privacy Policy. It is up to you to determine whether accessing this site and purchasing our products are legal where you are. You access this site and purchase our products at your own risk, and you are responsible for compliance with all applicable laws, rules, regulations and treaties.

SECTION 10 - CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time, so please review it frequently. Changes and clarifications will take effect immediately upon their posting on the website. GMB Farms encourages visitors to check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy.  Any material changes will be communicated to you by: (1) email, (2) push notification, or (3) a prominent notice within our Services. Continued use of the Services following such notices to the changes in our Privacy Policy are considered your acknowledgement of such changes and agreement to be bound by those changes.

QUESTIONS AND CONTACT INFORMATION

If you would like to: access, correct, amend or delete any personal information we have about you (other than that information automatically generated by your use of our site), register a complaint, or simply want more information contact our customer service team at customerservice@gmbfarms.com or by mail at:

Gmb Farms Corp.
18451 Beech Ave
Shafter, CA 93263
United States

SECTION 11 – CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS

This section applies to all users who are California residents. You have certain rights regarding your Personal Information. For the purposes of this section, “Personal Information” has the meaning ascribed to it in the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”) byt does not include certain de-identified or aggregated information, information publicly available in government records, or certain information excluded from the CCPA’s scope.

As a California resident, you are entitled to request the following information: (1) the categories of Personal Information in the past twelve (12) months and the sources from which our Personal Information is collected; (2) the business or commercial purpose for collecting your Personal Information; (3) the categories of third parties with whom we share Personal Information; and (4) the specific pieces of Personal Information we have collected about you.

You also have the following rights: (!) the right to delete your Personal Information collected from you, except as necessary to comply with legal obligations, detect, prevent, and mitigate security incidents, bugs, or fraudulent, malicious deceptive or illegal activity, or as otherwise provided under applicable law; (2) the right to prevent the sale of your Personal Information sold to third parties, if applicable; and (3) the right not to be discriminated against for exercising your privacy rights described herein.

California residents who exercise the rights described herein will not be denied use of our Services, charged different prices or rates, provided any different level or quality of experience, or otherwise the exercise of your rights prevents the use of your Personal Information necessary to facilitate a transaction or feature of our Services.

Cookies Policy

What are cookies?

A cookie is a small amount of information that’s downloaded to your computer or device when you visit certain websites. We use a number of different cookies on the GMB Farms website, including strictly necessary, performance, advertising, and social media or content cookies. Cookies make your browsing experience better by allowing the website to remember your actions and preferences (such as login and region selection). This means you don’t have to re-enter this information each time you return to the site or browse from one page to another. Cookies also provide information on how people use the website, for instance whether it’s their first time visiting or if they are a frequent visitor. Read more about cookies (and other similar tracking technologies) and how we use the data collected through these technologies, in our Privacy Policy.

What cookies do we use and why?

Some cookies are necessary to allow you to browse our website, use its features, and access secure areas. The use of these cookies is essential for the website to work. For example, we use user-input cookies for the duration of a session to keep track of a user’s input when filling in forms that span several pages.

We also use functional cookies to remember choices you’ve made or information you’ve provided, such as your username, language, or the region you are in. This allows us to tailor your website experience specifically to your preferences. For example, authentication cookies are functional cookies that are used for the duration of a session (or persistent, if you agree to the “remember me” function) to allow users to authenticate themselves on subsequent visits or to gain access to authorized content across pages. The functional cookies we use include:

• User-centric security cookies to detect authentication abuses for a limited persistent duration, like repeated failed login attempts. These cookies are set for the specific task of increasing the security of the service.
• Multimedia content player session cookies (flash cookies) are used for the duration of a session to store technical data needed to play back video or audio content (e.g. image quality, network link speed, and buffering parameters).
• Load balancing session cookies are used for the duration of the session to identify the same server in the pool in order for the load balancer to redirect user requests appropriately.
• User interface customization persistent cookies are used to store a user’s preference regarding a service across web pages.

GMB Farms is dedicated to user experience and we use many tools to help us improve our website and our commerce platform. To this end, we use reporting and analytics cookies to collect information about how you use our website or our merchants’ storefronts, and how often. These cookies only gather information for statistical purposes and only use pseudonymous cookie identifiers that do not directly identify you. The performance cookies we use include:

• First party analytics cookies - We use these cookies to estimate the number of unique visitors, to improve our websites and our merchants’ websites, and to detect the most searched for words in search engines that lead to a webpage. These cookies are not used to target you with online marketing. We use these cookies to learn how our websites and our merchants’ websites are performing and make relevant improvements to improve your browsing experience.
• Third party analytics cookies - We also use Google Analytics and other third-party analytics providers listed below to help measure how users interact with our website content. These cookies “remember” what our users have done on previous pages and how they’ve interacted with the website. For more information on Google Analytics, visit Google’s information page. For instructions on how opt out of Google Analytics, see below.

Advertising cookies are used on our website to tailor marketing to you and your interests and provide you with a more personalized service in the future. These cookies remember that you visited our website and we may share this information with third-parties, such as advertisers. Although these cookies can track your device’s visits to our website and other sites, they typically cannot personally identify you. Without these cookies, the advertisements that you see may be less relevant and interesting to you. We do not set advertising cookies through our merchants’ storefronts ourselves, though merchants may choose to do so independently.

Finally, Social and Content cookies are placed by many social media plugins (for example the Facebook ’like’ button), and other tools meant to provide or improve the content on a website (for example services that allow the playing of video files, or that create comments sections). We integrate these modules into our platform to improve the experience of browsing and interacting with our websites. Please note that some of these third party services place cookies that are also used for things like behavioural advertising, analytics, and/or market research.

How to control cookies?

You can control and manage cookies in various ways. Please keep in mind that removing or blocking cookies can negatively impact your user experience and parts of our website may no longer be fully accessible.

Most browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can choose whether or not to accept cookies through your browser controls, often found in your browser’s “Tools” or “Preferences” menu. For more information on how to modify your browser settings or how to block, manage or filter cookies can be found in your browser’s help file or through such sites as: www.allaboutcookies.org.

Many of the third party advertising and other tracking services listed above offer you the opportunity to opt out of their tracking systems. You can read more about the information they collect and how to opt out through the privacy policy links listed above.